12/12/2025
“94% of the plants and seeds we once used for food have become extinct. Today, the majority of the foods we eat come from just a few plants that are commercially grown and genetically modified. Diversity in our food supply is nonexistent, indigenous foods are becoming lost and the few seed collections that remain need to be continually grown-out in order to insure seed viability.
Homestead Heirloom Gardens is primarily a rare and endangered plant and seed grow-out farm for various seed collections and germplasm preservation efforts. We are also a small off-grid, self-reliant community of individuals who have dedicated their lives to the preservation of rare, endangered and "extinct" medicinal and indigenous cultivars.”
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